"Magnum opus" does not seem like a robust enough phrase to describe the scope of "The American Individuals," which stretches back to the prehistoric swamps on the Everglades and concludes, inside the second volume, in modern New York City...

You can find no locations immune to tornadoes; they have been reported in mountains and valleys, over deserts and swamps, in the Gulf Coast into Canada, in Hawaii and in some cases Alaska. No matter the location or time of year, if conditi...